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Friends and family including veterans groups and first responders help 99 year-old WWII veteran Ray Moore celebrate his birthday Saturday, Feb. 12 with a parade of 20 vehicles driving past his house
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Aurora resident and WWII veteran, 99 year-old Ray Moore, receives birthday drive-by parade

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Friends and family, including veterans groups and first responders, help 99 year-old World War II veteran Ray Moore celebrate his birthday Saturday, Feb. 12 with a parade of 20 vehicles which drove past his house in Aurora. Members of Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club and Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84...

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Art and Market Aurora returns

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Art and Market Aurora is back at Society 57 for six dates this Winter and Spring. The Aurora Downtown group’s indoor market features several hometown vendors at the event space and coffeehouse at 100 S. River Street. The market will feature will both food and artisan vendors on the second...

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Aurora’s Blues on the Fox Festival will return June 17-18

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After a two-year hiatus, downtown Aurora’s 24th Annual Blues on the Fox Festival is roaring back this Summer, with a killer lineup of longtime favorites and new talent playing live blues on the banks of the Fox River, Friday and Saturday, June 17-18, at Thomas J. Weisner RiverEdge Park. Friday...

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Music, ‘Narratives’, fill Marmion Academy breakfast

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Student musicians and an art show were a highlight of the Marmion Academy Music Boosters’ annual pancake breakfast fundraiser Sunday, Feb. 13. In addition to pancakes with sides, patrons were treated to eight performances by student musicians. Performing at intervals were choral, jazz and brass groups from Marmion, Rosary High...

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Aurora Food Pantry Women’s Mobile Pantry delayed

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Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry’s Women’s’ Empowerment Mobile Pantry, a women-only giveaway this week was rescheduled and relocated. A fourth monthly food and household products distribution was set for Thursday, Feb. 17, at Mutual Ground domestic violence shelter in Aurora. Rebecca Dunnigan, Pantry outreach and program director, said Tuesday the...

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Thank You For Leaving The House (TYFLTH) art experience in Batavia

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A business in Batavia will unveil a unique immersing multimedia art experience in March. The public is invited to not only attend, but participate, when Thank You For Leaving The House (TYFLTH) will make a debuts Saturday, March 26 at Black Cactus Print House, 11 E. Wilson Street in Batavia....

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Therapy Dog Club visits hospitals again

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Just like everybody else, members of the Fox Valley Therapy Dog Club are working within protocols so that youngsters may meet with four legged friends, hospital staff members will receive comfort and reading programs for children which will, in a small way, return to local libraries. Going forward within a...

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Black History Month: Aurora Methodists to explore Underground Railroad quilt codes; speaker to display original quilts

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“Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad” will be presented by Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17. Celebrating Black History Month, the program will include a reading of “Under the Quilt...

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Former nuclear sub officer at Aurora Navy League

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The Aurora Navy League Council 247 will hold its Tuesday Feb. 15 dinner meeting at the private room of the Riverview Diner, IL-25 and Mill Street, Montgomery. It is a very large private room and can be entered from the north door, or through the restaurant. There is plenty of...

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Veterans Women’s Voices at Cantigny Park

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The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton announced a special edition of its Veteran Voices series featuring two women who served in the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division. They will share their service experiences and answer questions on Zoom at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17. The event is...

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Anniversary display of Henry Pratt Company shooting in Aurora

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The Aurora Historical Society will pay tribute to the five individual who lost their lives in an Aurora workplace shooting in 2019 by mounting a third anniversary exhibit of memorabilia. The exhibit will open February 4 and run through February 26. Russell Beyer, Vicente Juarez, Clayton Parks, Josh Pinkard, and...

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Fermilab open house Feb. 9-13

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Fermilab’s annual Family Open House will return February 9-13 for families and kids of all ages to have the experience of America’s premier particle physics laboratory from the comfort of their homes. Activities will include live talks, pre-recorded on-demand demos and activities, trivia, virtual tours of the lab facilities, a...

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Will County Rare Coin Show Feb. 27

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The 62nd annual Will County Coin Club Rare Coin Show will take place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, at the Clarion Hotel and Convention Center, 411 S. Larkin Avenue, Joliet. The show will feature the Pete McCoy Youth Auction at 1:30 p.m. for ages 14 and...

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Let’s Talk Trash on Zoom February 7

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Valley of the Fox Sierra Club invites all to a Zoom program at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7. The Zoom link is us02web.zoom.us/j/2933277588 The program will be Waste Privilege, or, Let’s Talk Trash. Elgin resident Robin Migalla has been on an environmentalist path for more than 50 years. With tongue...

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Plans for First Fridays in Aurora: Enjoyable lineup

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Aurora Downtown has announced its schedule of events for the year. The downtown organization once again will be host to the popular Food Truck Festival at May’s First Fridays event. Outdoor movies will return to two downtown locations in the Summer. The event lineup for the year ahead provides a...

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Yorkville’s Read to Feed challenge fills all of February

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The Yorkville Public Library Youth Service Department will have many events in February. All events will take place at the Library, 902 Game Farm Road, unless otherwise noted. For more information, or to register, call 630-553-4354 or visit www.yorkville.lib.il.us. Face masks are required regardless of vaccinated status. 2022 Winter Community...

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Crossway Chapel grand opening Jan. 23

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Crossway Chapel Aurora Church will be host to a grand opening worship service at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23. Crossway meets at Temple B’Nai Israel, 400 N. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora. The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. Pastor Brent Logan will preach on “Handling Life’s Sticky Situations.”...

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Frosty Fest at Red Oak Nature Center

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Fox Valley Park District’s Red Oak Nature Center, 2343 S. River Street in Batavia, will be host to its third annual “Frosty Fest” from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29. The public is invited. Activities will include hiking a nature trail followed by hot cocoa and toasting marshmallows...

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Aurora Sunrise Rotary Club special event February 5

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After two years of cancellations ASRC (Aurora Sunrise Rotary Club) is announcing the annual event, our 19th. It will be held at the Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5. At the Wine and Chocolate Experience, you will enjoy wine, chocolate, appetizers, and...

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